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The New Zealand Herald reports Trump's approval rating has dropped sharply among his core white working-class supporters, a significant shift as midterms approach.
The New Zealand Herald reports Trump's approval rating has dropped sharply among white working-class voters—the demographic that formed his core support. The timing matters: this is happening as midterms approach.
Losing ground with your base voters a year before midterms is structurally significant. It suggests policy or messaging choices are alienating the people most likely to turn out for you. Working-class voters typically care about economics, jobs, and direct material impact—if approval is dropping there, it's worth asking what specific policy or price point triggered the shift. This kind of movement tends to accelerate if it's driven by economic hardship, since conditions usually worsen rather than improve.
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